Celebrating 100 Years: The Centennial Exhibition

May 14 through December 31

Visit the Library to discover 200 of the 50 million items in NYPL’s collections, including a letter to Harold Ross of The New Yorker from Groucho Marx, a manuscript of The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot, with Ezra Pound's emendations, Annie Proulx's illustrated notebook, John Keats's letter to secret love Fanny Brawne, a journal of Malcolm X, Virginia Woolf's diary, and The Wizard of Oz pen and ink illustrations by W.W. Denslow.

Video: Learn about items in the exhibition in a series of videos with curator Thomas Mellins--be sure to check back as we release more videos

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